ATLAS O TROOP CARS ARE HERE AND MOST ARE IN STOCK TODAY!

Thank you for your orders.  All orders that were received before 5:30PM yesterday was on the truck last night!

Can i get a floor casting for one of those, from you?  I have been trying to  pick up one for one of my Weaver cars which suffers from "growing die casting disease".  The car is great, just need the floor casting and the main frame assembly and it will be perfect.  Atlas never answered my several requests for information.

Paul Fischer

Question about adding to an existing train, do they match the Weaver Troop cars? What is different on the frame and truck mount?

Another question, are the 3 rail couplers standard O gauge couplers or scale Kadee couplers? From the photos they look like standard O gauge on the Express cars but Kadees on the other cars?

Thanks

Mike

ezmike posted:

Another question, are the 3 rail couplers standard O gauge couplers or scale Kadee couplers? From the photos they look like standard O gauge on the Express cars but Kadees on the other cars?

Thanks

Mike

Mike,

The photographs above are stock photographs from Atlas O.  Two of them are pictured as 2-rail.   All the in-stock cars listed above are THREE-RAIL with standard high-rail couplers.

For what it's worth, the combination of the diecast floor assembly with a strong ABS (plastic) carbody, was the down-fall of the Weaver cars. Once the diecast floor assembly began to expand, with the high quality carbody effectively preventing such expansion, the diecast floor assembly then seriously warped. I have three of the Weaver express cars, and one underframe warped so badly that it broke-up into multiple pieces, thus requiring a complete new underframe made out of styrene. The other two cars, I caught in time, and ground off the ends of the diecast floor, so as to allow a slight gap at each end of the frame.

Thus, it will be very interesting to see exactly how these new Atlas cars perform over time. 

fisch330 posted:

Can i get a floor casting for one of those, from you?  I have been trying to  pick up one for one of my Weaver cars which suffers from "growing die casting disease".  The car is great, just need the floor casting and the main frame assembly and it will be perfect.  Atlas never answered my several requests for information.

Paul Fischer

The replacement parts just arrived at Atlas O and are being put into inventory now.   The floor casting and under frame detail will be sold as a single unit, and the 3 rail trucks will also be available soon.  The 2 rail trucks will be available in a few weeks.  Cost for the parts are not yet known, but should be available very soon.

Yes, we can special order the parts from Atlas for you when they are available.

So it says minimum curve for 3-rail is 0-45....anyone try 0-42? 

SJC posted:

So it says minimum curve for 3-rail is 0-45....anyone try 0-42? 

While I have not tried with these cars, in particular, I have a set of Atlas passenger cars rated similarly and they do not fit O-42. Frustrating at times, but they will have to remain shelf queens until I can build a more accommodating layout. 

SJC posted:

So it says minimum curve for 3-rail is 0-45....anyone try 0-42? 

We did test one car on a loop of O-42" MTH Realtrax and it seems to navigate the curves, however the wheel flanges seem to rub slightly on the under frame details.

The details inside and out are beautiful!

JR Junction posted:

SJC posted:

So it says minimum curve for 3-rail is 0-45....anyone try 0-42? 

We did test one car on a loop of O-42" MTH Realtrax and it seems to navigate the curves, however the wheel flanges seem to rub slightly on the under frame details.

The details inside and out are beautiful!

Thanks for the info. I think I will reluctantly hold off on these....having a couple of these cars "local", I would like to have one or two.

Hot Water posted:

For what it's worth, the combination of the diecast floor assembly with a strong ABS (plastic) carbody, was the down-fall of the Weaver cars. Once the diecast floor assembly began to expand, with the high quality carbody effectively preventing such expansion, the diecast floor assembly then seriously warped. I have three of the Weaver express cars, and one underframe warped so badly that it broke-up into multiple pieces, thus requiring a complete new underframe made out of styrene. The other two cars, I caught in time, and ground off the ends of the diecast floor, so as to allow a slight gap at each end of the frame.

Thus, it will be very interesting to see exactly how these new Atlas cars perform over time. 

With all due respect, I don't think this is what the problem was with the Weaver cars.  I think it was a contaminate in some of the metal floors.  There were many of the original Weaver cars that seem perfectly fine after all of these years.  I had mild warping on only one of my four cars.  No change in the cars when I packed them up for our move a month ago. 

Looking forward to seeing the prices on the replacement parts.   I see that prices have been posted on another thread!

Jim

jd-train posted:

Hot Water posted:

For what it's worth, the combination of the diecast floor assembly with a strong ABS (plastic) carbody, was the down-fall of the Weaver cars. Once the diecast floor assembly began to expand, with the high quality carbody effectively preventing such expansion, the diecast floor assembly then seriously warped. I have three of the Weaver express cars, and one underframe warped so badly that it broke-up into multiple pieces, thus requiring a complete new underframe made out of styrene. The other two cars, I caught in time, and ground off the ends of the diecast floor, so as to allow a slight gap at each end of the frame.

Thus, it will be very interesting to see exactly how these new Atlas cars perform over time. 

With all due respect, I don't think this is what the problem was with the Weaver cars.  I think it was a contaminate in some of the metal floors. 

I disagree. If the diecast underframe was "contaminated" (zinc-pest?), why wouldn't it have simply broken up? Even on one of my cars that had not yet warped the underframe, it was so tight in the plastic carbody that it had to be carefully pried out using Exacto knife blades. Once the ends were ground down a bit, the underframe assembly fit perfectly.

There were many of the original Weaver cars that seem perfectly fine after all of these years.  I had mild warping on only one of my four cars.  No change in the cars when I packed them up for our move a month ago. 

Then apparently any/all the expansion has taken place, and the underframe assembly may still be loosely fitting the plastic carbody, without warpage. 

 

Jim

Thank you for the orders coming in!

In case others are looking for the replacement parts for their Weaver Models cars, I have posted a new thread here:

https://ogrforum.com/t...-cars-available-here

Quantities are getting very low on the remaining units available.  Get them now, while we still have them!